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Hildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times is a carefully drawn account of how townspeople went abo

Drawing on family diaries, letters, albums, and interviews, author Margarete Roth traces the history of her family from her own birth in Stuttgart, Germany, 193

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and pre

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the k

The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilit